L.A. Times Daily - Jul 26 2018

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Clues Answers
"A Prayer for __ Meany": John Irving novel OWEN
"O wad some Pow'r the giftie __ us": Burns GIE
"Saving Private Ryan" event DDAY
"Star Trek" rank: Abbr ENS
5'7" Webb, shortest to win the NBA Slam Dunk Contest SPUD
About 1.3 cubic yards STERE
Act like APE
Antioxidant berry in smoothies ACAI
Bacteria in undercooked meat ECOLI
Bad-mouths ASPERSES
Ball beauties BELLES
Barbecue favorite SPARERIBS
Beef GRIPE
Bikini blast NTEST
Bochco series LALAW
Bonanza contents ORE
Bursts POPS
City on the Aire LEEDS
Cloud BLUR
Convened SAT
Cooked fruit dessert ... and a cryptic hint to the start of 17-, 31- and 38-Across STEWEDPEARS
Counterpart of "a" ALPHA
Decline to recline? STAYUP
Dominant states SUPERPOWERS
Downed a sub? ATE
Expels SPEWS
Feast where the Haggadah is read SEDER
Fishing lure SPINNER
Flips, in a way RESELLS
Give a makeover REDO
Goes after SEEKS
Hardened INURED
Held closely (to) ADHERED
Hip-hop artist who narrates Netflix's "The Get Down" NAS
Hurdle for Hannibal ALP
Informer STOOLPIGEON
Innocent-looking WIDEEYED
Clues Answers
Larry McMurtry's "The Last Picture __" SHOW
Latin stars ASTRA
Led SPEARHEADED
Less experienced RAWER
Let up EASE
Like Cognac casks OAKEN
Loosey-__ GOOSEY
Make confetti of RIPUP
Manage (for oneself) FEND
Many a Bon Appétit subscriber FOODIE
Melonlike tropical fruit PAPAWS
Mike and __: fruity candy IKE
Most affectionate FONDEST
Mountain lake TARN
Name on a 1945 bomber ENOLA
Not just "a" THE
Org. that awards the Spingarn Medal NAACP
Pang THROE
Part of mpg PER
Personal quirk TIC
Peter, Paul and Mary: Abbr STS
Plant-eating scarab beetles CHAFERS
Plump ROTUND
Quilt filler EIDER
Reduces, as spending PARESDOWN
Sentence shortener PAROLE
Slapstick trio member STOOGE
Spartan BARE
Suffix with glob ULE
Syst. of cars on tracks RRS
Tablet download EBOOK
Tap output ALE
Tea go-with SCONE
Valuable deposit LODE
You might hear music on it HOLD
__ Alley TINPAN
__-watch BINGE